GENERAL ORDERS, i WAR DEPARTMENT,
\ Adjutant General's Office,
No. 301. ) Washington, September 7, 1863.
Under the provisions of section 42, act of March 3, 1863, the head
of each Bureau in each Executive Department is to be considered a
part of the Executive Department, and letters written by an officer of
the Government on official business to the Department, or to any head
of a Bureau of a Department, are to be passed free of postage. Such
letters must be marked official on the envelope, with the official
signature of the writer underneath
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR :
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.